Are there any fiddle tunes in E?

[acousticphd]

Glory in the Meeting House, while I guess in E minor, uses a low E tuning (EDAE). That is, it does not sound like a G tune, and you won't have any trouble identifying it as an old-time fiddle tune. See Bruce Molsky's or Brad Leftwich's version among others.

[Paul Kotapish]

Glory in the Meeting House, while I guess in E minor, uses a low E tuning (EDAE).

Great tune. I play G#'s and D naturals throughout the setting of the tune I know, so I'd call it E mixolydian rather than E minor.

[Jack Roberts]

Now it is time to move on to C# minor?

Moonlight Sonata!

[Austin Bob]

This doesn't really count, but it's fairly cool.

[JeffD]

Jack mentioned "Ross's Reel" in E, but if it's the same New England standard I know (aka "Ross's #4"), it's most commonly played in F. Could be another tune altogether, of course. There are plenty of guys named Ross.

I am not familiar with #4, but the Ross's Reel I know is in the Fiddlers Fakebook and Ryan's Mammoth in E. I have heard it at contra dances played in E. Folks here begged to have it transmogrified it into D for them, and someone finally did, so its a D tune round here (grumble grumble).

[Mark Robertson-Tessi]

A few more:

The Girls at Martinfield is a nice Phil Cunningham reel in E.

Touching Cloth by James Kelly, a reel in E about sitting on the throne.

Homage to Rooney, a modern reel in E by Johhny O'Connely

MacArthur Road, great tune in E by Dave Richardson who also wrote Calliope House in E

The last part of House of Hamill throws some G#s into an E minor tune, like Beare Isle does.

Cheers
Mark RT

[JeffD]

Bach Partita III, and especially the Gavotte and Rondeau part. Yea its in E. Boy is it.